Starmer is a war criminal: and he knows it
TetleysTLDR: The Summary
Britain is not neutral. It’s complicit. Britains blood hands in Gaza
Spy flights: Over 500 RAF surveillance sorties from Cyprus into Gaza. Ministers say 'hostages only”'. Absolute Nonsense: ISR data is dual-use and Israel clearly used it to bomb hospitals, camps, and homes.
Cargo runs: RAF planes into Tel Aviv since the war began. MoD admitted some; open-source logs show more. Ministers hide behind 'operational security'. The silence reeks of guilt.
Training killers: In July 2025, as Gaza burned, an Israeli colonel graduated in London after being trained by the British Army. Britain continues to train the very people directing the carnage.
F-35 carve-out: Labour suspended a handful of export licences in Sept 2024 but exempted Israel’s F-35 programme. The High Court upheld it on 30 Jun 2025. UK-made parts still flow for the planes that bomb tents.
Lawyers in charge: Starmer (QC, former DPP), Lammy (Barrister), Reynolds (legally trained). They know the Genocide Convention, Arms Trade Treaty, and export laws. Ignorance impossible. This was a choice.
The lobby pipeline: BICOM & We Believe in Israel , Zabludowicz money (Anita and Poju Zabludowicz), LFI-funded MP trips . Luke Akehurst sits on Labour’s NEC while directing WBII. Policy warped by lobby pressure.
The law: Internationally, Article 25 of the Rome Statute covers aiding and abetting genocide . Domestically, the Bribery Act 2010, the National Security Act 2023, and the Official Secrets Acts all criminalise aiding a foreign power at Britain’s expense.
The verdict: Britain isn’t a bystander. It’s an accomplice. And when the law finally catches up, at The Hague or at home, Starmer and his ministers won’t be able to plead ignorance. They knew. They chose. And the blood is on their hands.
TetleysTLDR: The article
The Labour government wants you to believe Britain is just a spectator in Gaza. That we stand on the sidelines, wringing our hands and urging 'all sides' to follow international law.
Absolute bullshit. Britain is far from neutral. Britain is up to its neck in it.
From RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, British spy planes have flown hundreds of surveillance missions over Gaza. Ministers insist they’re 'only looking for hostages'. That’s a lie. Intelligence doesn’t come with labels. Data that can find a hostage can also find a target to bomb, and Israel has used RAF intelligence to flatten neighbourhoods, hospitals, and refugee camps. Britain provided the eyes in the sky. It doesn’t end there. RAF cargo planes have been running back and forth to Tel Aviv since the first weeks of the war. The MoD admitted to at least 17 flights (; open-source trackers logged 33 in just two months, and MPs have alleged daily runs since. When asked what was on board, ministers hid behind operational security. That silence reeks of guilt.
Meanwhile, as Gaza burned, Israeli military officers were being trained in London. In June 2025, the MoD confirmed that IDF personnel were attending UK-based courses. In July 2025, the latest Israeli colonel graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London as thousands of Palestinians were being killed in Rafah. The very people directing the carnage were being trained by the British Army and polishing their credentials on British soil.
And then there’s the F-35 scandal. In September 2024, Labour pretended to act tough by suspending 'around 30' export licences. At the same time they carved out an exemption for Israel’s main bombing platform, the F-35 fighter jet. British-made spares continued flowing through the multinational pool, and Israel kept flying them over Gaza. When campaigners challenged the carve-out, the High Court upheld it. Legal? Maybe. Moral? like fuck it was. This is what complicity looks like. Not neutrality. Not standing on the sidelines. Active, knowing, deliberate complicity.
Complicity in Law
Legally, 'complicity' has a precise meaning. And by any fair reading, Britain is already in the danger zone. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in January 2024 that there was a plausible risk of genocide and ordered Israel to prevent it (ICJ, 26 Jan 2024). In May 2024, it ordered Israel to halt its Rafah offensive (ICJ, 24 May 2024). That put every other state 'on notice'.
Yet Britain carried on: surveillance flights, IDF training, F-35 spares. All of it sits squarely against the UK’s own export rules and against Article 16 of the Articles on State Responsibility (United Nations Legal Affairs).
In criminal law, motive and intent aren’t the same thing. Intent is the act itself, you meant to do it. Motive is the reason why. Courts don’t need motive to convict: you can be guilty of murder without anyone knowing why you killed. International law works the same way. The Rome Statute requires knowledge and intent (Article 30). It doesn’t ask why a government acted, only whether it knew what it was doing and carried on regardless (Rome Statute; ICTY; ICTR). For states, the bar is even clearer. Under ARSIWA Article 16, motive is irrelevant. If the UK knowingly helped Israel commit atrocities, with F-35 spares, surveillance flights, or military training, then liability follows. Why ministers did it (arms sales, lobby pressure, alliance politics) doesn’t matter. They knew. They assisted. That’s enough.
And ignorance? Well that's kicked out of the yard really isn't it? Starmer is a King’s Counsel and a former Director of Public Prosecutions. Lammy is a barrister. Reynolds is legally trained. These men cannot claim they didn’t understand the Genocide Convention (1948), the Arms Trade Treaty (2014), or Britain’s Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. When they authorised flights, training, and F-35 carve-outs after the ICJ said genocide was a plausible risk, it wasn’t an accident, it was a calculated choice.
The Lobby Pipeline
So why did they make that choice? A cynic would say follow the money.
BICOM and We Believe in Israel (WBII): WBII is a BICOM spin-off, fronted for years by Luke Akehurst. BICOM was founded by billionaire Poju Zabludowicz, whose money still bankrolls 'pro-Israel advocacy' in Britain. WBII even lists BICOM as a principal partner. Zabludowicz philanthropy: The Zabludowicz family continues to fund UK communal and political causes; public statements show Anita and Poju Zabludowicz’s philanthropy remains tied into this ecosystem. Trips and perks: Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) bankrolls MP delegations to Israel and the UAE. The registers are full of them: flights, hotels, meals worth thousands. One MP, Jon Pearce, logged a £2,700 package in March 2025. Sometimes they don’t even declare them on time: Parliament has opened probes into undeclared LFI trips. The long pattern: Registers show a steady cross-party pipeline of LFI-funded trips stretching back years. Sharon Hodgson’s register is just one example among many.
Luke Akehurst’s role: Akehurst has been Director of WBII, sits on Labour’s NEC, and is a vocal champion of keeping Labour tied to Israel. That puts him at the nexus of lobbying, party rule-making, and messaging.
Luke Akehurst: Self-styled Zionist Shitlord and hated MP for North Durham.
The effect: Delegations soften MPs. BICOM briefings shape risk assessments. Akehurst locks the line into Labour’s machinery.
The result? Britain keeps flying spy planes, training IDF officers, and pumping F-35 parts into Israel even after the ICJ ruled there’s a plausible genocide risk. Lobbying isn’t per se unlawful. But it is probative of motive. It shows ministers weren’t acting blindly, they were pushed, flattered, funded, and politically rewarded for looking the other way. In ICC terms, that goes to knowledge and contribution under Rome Statute Art. 25(3)(c)–(d). In Westminster, it’s business as usual.
Complicity at Home: British Law
And it’s not just international law that puts ministers in the dock. Even under Britain’s own laws, the case for complicity stinks.
The Bribery Act 2010 makes it a crime for politicians to take inducements that sway their official duties. Those lobby-funded trips, donations, and perks? If they shaped decisions on arms exports or intelligence-sharing, they’re not just unethical. They’re criminal.
The National Security Act 2023 goes further. Section 16 makes foreign interference an offence: conduct intended to benefit a foreign power that undermines the UK’s politics or legal processes. That is precisely what lobby-funded pressure has done in Westminster. Furthermore Section 3 makes it an offence to assist a foreign intelligence service. Feeding surveillance data into Israel’s bombing machine firmly ticks that fucking box.
The Official Secrets Acts (1911–1989) criminalise actions 'prejudicial to the interests of the State' that benefit a foreign power. Ministers can’t just hide behind government policy. If that policy serves a foreign war effort over Britain’s own interests, it crosses into criminal territory.
Even the ancient Treason Act 1351 hasn’t gone away. It outlaws giving 'aid and comfort' to the King’s enemies. Outdated? Sure. But the spirit of it couldn’t be clearer: handing support to a foreign power committing mass atrocities is betrayal of the state, of the public, and of every principle ministers swore to uphold.
So let’s just stop pretending this is just 'politics'. Under both international and domestic law, knowingly aiding a foreign state’s war crimes is a crime. And when ministers lap up lobby money and perks while green-lighting flights, training, and F-35 spares, it’s not just complicity. It’s corruption dressed up as foreign policy.
Britain is not a neutral bystander in Gaza. It is an accomplice. The evidence is overwhelming: surveillance flights feeding Israel’s war machine, cargo runs into Tel Aviv, IDF officers trained on British soil, and F-35 spares kept flowing even after the ICJ warned of genocide. Ministers knew exactly what they were doing and they carried on anyway. Starmer, Lammy, and Reynolds are not ignorant backbenchers. They are lawyers. They know the Genocide Convention, the Arms Trade Treaty, and Britain’s export laws inside out. Ignorance isn’t even plausible. This was conscious complicity, dressed up as policy. And why? Because the lobby pipeline made sure of it. BICOM, LFI, WBII, Zabludowicz money, free trips, perks, and the ever-present figure of that POS Luke fucking Akehurst tilting Labour’s machinery in Israel’s favour.
But there's a problem: The establishment loves to preach about the 'rule of law'. They tell us Britain is a country of laws, not men. They tell us our leaders are bound by international treaties and domestic statutes. But when it comes to Gaza, all that pious talk collapses.
Because the truth is simple: the government holds the law in contempt.
The International Court of Justice said there’s a plausible risk of genocide. Ministers shrugged and carried on with business as usual. The Arms Trade Treaty says stop the exports if there’s a clear risk of war crimes. Starmer’s cabinet signed off the carve-out and kept the spare parts flowing. Even our own export licensing rules ban transfers where international humanitarian law might be breached. They ignored that too. So what good is the rule of law when the very people sworn to uphold it trample over it in broad daylight?
At home, we see the same pattern. Peaceful protesters dragged off the streets, slapped with terrorism charges for holding up a banner or chanting for Palestine. Journalists surveilled. Campaigners arrested. All while right-wing mobs spew their bile and take to the streets in violent disorder with almost impunity. The law is wielded not as a shield for the vulnerable but as a weapon against dissent.
This is the looking glass we’ve walked through: a government of barristers and King’s Counsels that lectures the world about legality while dismantling it at home and abroad. A government that pretends complicity is some abstract debate in The Hague, when in reality it’s British planes, British parts, British training helping Israel wage its war. The law should be our weapon against this. But in the hands of Starmer and his bunch of self-serving bastards, it has been hollowed out, repurposed, and turned against the very people it’s meant to protect.
The rule of law is still there, written in black and white. What’s missing is the political will to enforce it against those in power. That’s the danger: when the state treats law as something to bend for its friends and break against its enemies, it’s not law anymore. It’s just power dressed up in legal robes. And right now, that’s what Britain is exporting to Gaza along with the bombs.
That’s not diplomacy, that’s Westminster bending under the weight of a foreign lobby while ordinary Britons are left with crumbling public services, rising poverty, and the shame of complicity in genocide.
The law is clear. Internationally, Article 25 of the Rome Statute captures aiding and abetting (Rome Statute; International Court of Justice). Domestically, the Bribery Act, the National Security Act, and even the old Treason Act leave little doubt: knowingly aiding a foreign state’s atrocities is criminal. Ministers can’t hide behind 'government policy'. Policy is not a shield when it amounts to collaboration.
So when the question is asked, who does this government really serve? the answer is no longer in doubt. On paper, they serve the British people. In practice, they serve Israel’s war machine and the lobbyists who bankroll it.
So fuck you, Sir Kier Starmer and fuck you David Lammy and fuck everyone else involved in the shitshow defending the indefensible. You've turned the law into a weapon from a ploughshare. You're a fucking disgrace.
History will not forget it. Nor should the law
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